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Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna

Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna

Mario Giordano

Ecco Press
2021
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There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif . . . or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily's sultriest sleuth. Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace--a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican commissario with an almost unholy level of sex appeal turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Who is the woman being exorcised, and where has she disappeared to? And why in the world does she claim, in perfect Bavarian, to be Poldi, Isolde Oberreiter, of Torre Archirafi? Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair gone sour, someone in the town has been spraying graffiti death threats on her front door, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. And even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers that the case hinges on a lost Madonna statue, stolen years ago from the pope himself. Forza, Poldi With a pair of mysterious twins dogging her every move and a mandate to maintain sobriety, will Poldi be able to unmask her mysterious doppelg nger, find the lost statue in time, and survive her sixty-first birthday?
Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
Amateur sleuth Auntie Poldi finds a body in a vineyard--with the Mafia nipping at her heels--in "another wine-snortingly funny entry" (People) in this national-bestselling series. When Prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi retired to Sicily from Germany, she never dreamed her tranquil days would be interrupted by murder. But Sicily had other plans, and Poldi found herself honor-bound to solve the disappearance of her beloved (and cute) handyman. Now she's finally ready for some peace and quiet--interrupted by romantic encounters with handsome Chief Inspector Montana, of course--when the water supply to her neighborhood is cut off and a dear friend's dog is poisoned, telltale signs that a certain familial organization is flexing its muscles. Poldi knows there will be no resolution without her help. She soon finds a body in a vineyard, tangles with the Mafia, and yet again makes herself unpopular in the pursuit of justice. But once wine and murder mix, how could she possibly stay away? This is the sexy and thrilling follow-up to the first novel in this series, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions, hailed by Adriana Trigiani as "an explosion of color and] a celebration of the palette of Italian life and the Sicilian experience in its specificity, warmth and drama."
Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio

Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio

Mario Giordano

Ecco Press
2020
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The latest installment in Mario Giordano's best-selling series of charming mysteries, starring Sicily's most glamorous gumshoe, Auntie Poldi. All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep: John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged lying cheat of a husband.Not only is John's sudden reappearance putting a kink in Poldi's dreamy love affair with Montana, but his presence also comes with a plea for help--and unwanted clashes with the Mafia.Where is John's half-brother? What is the ten-million-dollar "it" that John's brother was last seen with, which has both the Sicilian and the Tanzanian mobs in a frenzy? With only a postcard that has a phone number and a name, "Handsome Antonio," on the back, Auntie Poldi hops begrudgingly (albeit with a great deal of gumption and panache) back into the saddle (in this case, an immaculate red Maserati Cabrio from the eighties with cream leather upholstery). The faster she finds Handsome Antonio, the sooner she can get John Owenya out of her hair and her love life. But the people Poldi discovers along the way may very well knock her immaculate wig askew.
Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna

Auntie Poldi and the Lost Madonna

Mario Giordano

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
2021
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There's only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif . . . or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily's sultriest sleuth. Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace--a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican commissario with an almost unholy level of sex appeal turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Who is the woman being exorcised, and where has she disappeared to? And why in the world does she claim, in perfect Bavarian, to be Poldi, Isolde Oberreiter, of Torre Archirafi? Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair gone sour, someone in the town has been spraying graffiti death threats on her front door, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. And even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers that the case hinges on a lost Madonna statue, stolen years ago from the pope himself. Forza, Poldi With a pair of mysterious twins dogging her every move and a mandate to maintain sobriety, will Poldi be able to unmask her mysterious doppelg nger, find the lost statue in time, and survive her sixty-first birthday?
Las Aventuras de Bayito

Las Aventuras de Bayito

Mario Encalada Castro

Windmills Editions
2018
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Corr a el a o 1992 en una ciudad de Suecia. Era hora de acostar a mis hijos y contarles un cuento, yo lo hac a a diario, pero ese d a no ten a algo nuevo que ofrecerles y ellos me miraban ansiosos y atentos a escuchar alguna historia, que por lo general yo inventaba. Fue as que, tom una revista al azar e inmediatamente y sin saberlo yo mismo, se me vino a la cabeza el nombre de BAYITO.Mis hijitos, escuchaban atentamente y la m s impactada era mi hija Nicole y se conmovi mucho al contarle que ese peque o caballito, era objeto de burlas porque era muy gordito. Mi hija me dec a, porqu que son malos con Bayito, si l es muy humilde y bueno. Yo le dije que desgraciadamente el bullying existe en todos los establecimientos educacionales y en las industrias tambi n, que no faltan los que se r en de otras personas, o se mofan sin saber las consecuencias que puedan causar.Bueno, as naci Bayito, que fue el motivo para escribir 13 cuenticos con el mismo personaje, y adem s, nacieron otros cuenticos, c mo EL NI O QUE QUER A VER EL MAR, BEBITO EL OSO, entre otros y los cu les en el futuro ser n publicados, para deleite del mundo infantil.**********************Naci el 20 de marzo de 1946, en la ciudad de Vallenar Chile, pero desde los 4 hasta los 33 a os, vivi en el puerto de Tocopilla, el cu l nunca olvida. Es el segundo de 4 hermanos y pese a la pobreza reinante en esos tiempos de los a os 50, con tes n y fuerza de voluntad, logr educarse y logr terminar sus estudios secundarios en la noche, puesto que en el d a trabajaba. Desde peque o demostr estar muy involucrado en el deporte, poes a y m sica, y es as que el a o 1970, LOS RUTTERS, de la Oficina Salitrera Mar a Elena, graban un tema de la autor a de Mario. "NUESTRO AMOR", el cual, con los a os fue regrabado por LOS GOLPES de Tocopilla, con el nombre, "AUNQUE SE OPONGAN LOS DEM S". Sus actitudes deportivas, lo llevaron a integrar la selecci n juvenil de f tbol del puerto de Tocopilla, con la cual viaj a un evento Nacional en la ciudad de Huachipato el a o 1964. Mario no olvid sus actitudes c mo autor, y el a o 2001, escribe su primera novela en Suecia, la cual fue muy le da. Seguidamente escribe "BAJO LA SOMBRA DEL EUCALIPTO", editada en Madrid-Espa a, por la editorial DIFUNDIA EDICIONES. Mario termina de escribir toda la saga de BAYITO, y la edita en la editorial Windmills de EE.UU. Ahora est dedicado a escribir su biograf a-ficci n "MI LARGA TRAVES A", escribe sus vivencias familiares, su ni ez y juventud en la pampa salitrera, en Antofagasta, en Mantos Blancos y Tocopilla su recordada ciudad, tambi n escribe sus experiencias en Suecia, donde vivi casi 30 a os y en Colombia d nde actualmente reside desde el a o 2009. Seguramente ser muy interesante leerlo por sus experiencias y recorridos en diversos lugares.
Chapter two: saving the world for future generations
This book was written with the idea of teaching the next generation to love, be empathetic of others who are suffering, not follow the same revanchism that my generation has always ready to retaliate at every criticism but, instead, learn to care for each other and the planet we are living in because it is the only one we've got.
Discovering the Pattern - How to Beat the Market 2019
"Money should work for you" To be rich you need to think like the rich. Don't work for money; make money work for you. That is how the rich think. M.G. Roberts About The Book M.G. Roberts challenges the status quo on the "buy and hold" method and adopts a different concept. His research contained in "Discovering The Pattern" looks at various industries to identify seasonal patterns. It features an easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions on which weeks to buy-in and which weeks to sell-out that will outperform the market sector over time. In this book you will learn to: > Incorporate the power of compounding into your portfolio. > Protect your assets from market corrections > Take advantage of huge market swings > Takes away the emotion of Trading. > Avoid investing in a few high-risk firms.
Silver Moon Chicago

Silver Moon Chicago

Mario Ochoa

Lulu.com
2019
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Our journey is not complete without other people. This book chronicles what happens when two sparks meet. It's a bit of anecdotes and a bit of poetry that we can all relate to. Discover how two souls can create something special.
Chad

Chad

Mario Azevedo

Routledge
2019
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Chad, the fifth largest country in Africa, has experienced great difficulties politically, economically, and socially. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Chad briefly held international attention because of its warring with Libya. This situation underlines Chad's potential for drawing its neighbors—Libya, Sudan, Cameroon, and Nigeria in particular—a
Generations of Settlers

Generations of Settlers

Mario Samper

Routledge
2019
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This book presents conceptual issues regarding household commodity production and agrarian capitalism and refers to specific issues in Costa Rican historiography. It discusses the regional case-study, addressing issues such as the role of peasant farming in the development of agro-export production.
Chad

Chad

Mario Azevedo

Routledge
2021
nidottu
Chad, the fifth largest country in Africa, has experienced great difficulties politically, economically, and socially. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Chad briefly held international attention because of its warring with Libya. This situation underlines Chad's potential for drawing its neighbors—Libya, Sudan, Cameroon, and Nigeria in particular—a
Generations of Settlers

Generations of Settlers

Mario Samper

Routledge
2020
nidottu
This book presents conceptual issues regarding household commodity production and agrarian capitalism and refers to specific issues in Costa Rican historiography. It discusses the regional case-study, addressing issues such as the role of peasant farming in the development of agro-export production.
Optical Signal Processing in Highly Nonlinear Fibers
This book provides an updated description of the most relevant types of highly nonlinear fibers. It also describes some of their actual applications for nonlinear optical signal processing. Multiple types of highly nonlinear fibers are considered, such as silica-based conventional highly nonlinear fibers, tapered fibers, photonic crystal fibers, and fibers made of highly nonlinear materials, namely lead-silicate, tellurite, bismuth oxide, and chalcogenide glasses. Several nonlinear phenomena occurring on such highly nonlinear fibers are described and used to realize different functions in the area of all-optical signal processing. Describes several nonlinear phenomena occurring on optical fibers, namely nonlinear phase modulation, parametric and stimulated scattering processes, optical solitons, and supercontinuum generation. Discusses different types of highly nonlinear fibers, namely silica-based conventional highly nonlinear fibers, tapered fibers, and photonic crystal fibers. Examines fibers made of highly nonlinear materials, namely lead-silicate, tellurite, bismuth oxide, and chalcogenide glasses. Describes the application of several nonlinear phenomena occurring on highly nonlinear fibers to realize different functions in the area of all-optical signal processing, namely optical amplification, multiwavelength sources, pulse generation, optical regeneration, wavelength conversion, and optical switching.Mário F. S. Ferreira received his PhD degree in 1992 in physics from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a professor in the Physics Department. Between 1990 and 1991, he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. His research interests have been concerned with the modeling and characterization of multisection semiconductor lasers, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, soliton propagation, nanophotonics, optical sensors, polarization, and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He has written more than 400 scientific journal and conference publications and several books in the area of mathematical physics, optics, and photonics. He has served as chair and committee member of multiple international conferences, as well as guest editor and advisory board member of several international journals.
A History of Siena

A History of Siena

Mario Ascheri; Bradley Franco

Routledge
2019
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A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena’s history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city.Well informed by archival research and recent scholarship on medieval Siena and the Italian city-states, this book places Siena’s development in its larger context, both temporally and geographically. In the process, this book offers new interpretations of Siena’s artistic, political, and economic development, highlighting in particular the role of pilgrimage, banking, and class conflict. The second half of the book provides an important analysis of the historical development of Siena’s nobility, its unique system of neighborhood associations (contrade) and the race of the Palio, as well as an overview of the rise and fall of Siena’s troubled bank, the Monte dei Paschi.This book is accessible to undergraduates and tourists, while also offering plenty of new insights for graduate students and scholars of all periods of Sienese history.
Natural Selection

Natural Selection

Mario A. Fares

CRC Press
2019
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A number of mathematical models and methods have been designed to identify the fingerprints of natural selection on genes and genomes. This book summarizes the knowledge in the field of methods to identify signatures of natural selection. The book presents the methods in a simple and direct way so that students of different disciplines can navigate through molecular fitness landscapes with only basic knowledge of bioinformatics. The book explores different levels of complexity, from nucleotides to proteins and molecular networks.
Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems
Ecologists, agronomists, and others who may question the validity of current models for determining sustainable growth of agroecosystems, need a new set of analytical tools that more effectively address the complex nature of related processes. Those who challenge traditional assumptions of optimization and static factors in agricultural modeling demand new methods beyond differential equations and traditional statistical tests. Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems explores alternative ways to study agricultural sustainability, presenting new approaches to organizing data and applying complex systems theory to actual cases. This innovative text recognizes the changing dynamics of the multiple processes and cross-relations within an environment, proposing a clearer analysis of agroecosystems than that which can be provided by rigid, reductionist methods. Main concepts, new vocabulary and narratives, and practical examples open the book, followed by technical chapters that provide a more detailed explanation of concepts. The final section of the book presents a tool kit based on these concepts, resulting in strong support of empirical observations that challenge traditional notions regarding the sustainability of farming systems, food systems, and agroecosystems.
The 14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama

Mario I. Aguilar

Routledge India
2020
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This book outlines the life of spiritual diplomacy of the 14th Dalai Lama and his emergence as a global peace icon. It traces his evolution as a Tibetan Buddhist monk rooted in the Geluk tradition, as a Nobel laureate, and as an internationally recognized peacemaker. The volume brings to the fore the Dalai Lama’s monastic life grounded in the compassion and ethical responsibility of a bodhisattva, somebody who is willing to renounce samsara for the benefit of others, as well as that of a political leader of Tibet. It examines the deep impact of his ideas of peacekeeping and universal responsibility on world politics, which draw on acceptance, inclusion, and respect as their central pillars. Further, this book highlights his departure from the practices of the earlier Dalai Lamas, and how the Chinese invasion and his exile in India transformed him into a universal figure of peace, rather than solely being the leader of Tibet. An introspective read, this book will be of much interest to readers interested in spiritual diplomacy and political philosophy. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of peace and conflict studies, international relations, politics, and religion, especially Buddhism.
The 14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama

Mario I. Aguilar

Routledge India
2020
nidottu
This book outlines the life of spiritual diplomacy of the 14th Dalai Lama and his emergence as a global peace icon. It traces his evolution as a Tibetan Buddhist monk rooted in the Geluk tradition, as a Nobel laureate, and as an internationally recognized peacemaker. The volume brings to the fore the Dalai Lama’s monastic life grounded in the compassion and ethical responsibility of a bodhisattva, somebody who is willing to renounce samsara for the benefit of others, as well as that of a political leader of Tibet. It examines the deep impact of his ideas of peacekeeping and universal responsibility on world politics, which draw on acceptance, inclusion, and respect as their central pillars. Further, this book highlights his departure from the practices of the earlier Dalai Lamas, and how the Chinese invasion and his exile in India transformed him into a universal figure of peace, rather than solely being the leader of Tibet. An introspective read, this book will be of much interest to readers interested in spiritual diplomacy and political philosophy. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of peace and conflict studies, international relations, politics, and religion, especially Buddhism.
The History of the Laser

The History of the Laser

Mario Bertolotti

CRC Press
2020
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Since the invention of the first working laser in 1960, development of these devices has progressed at an unprecedented rate, to the extent that the laser is now a common part of everyday life, from the semiconductor laser used in CD players and telecommunication systems to the high power eximer lasers used in manufacturing processes. This book traces the history of the laser, from the first theoretical predictions of stimulated emission made in the 1920s, through the experimental development of masers and lasers in the 50s and 60s, to the advanced applications of lasers in the present day. Along the way it tells the fascinating and at times controversial story of the people behind the discoveries. Written in a style suitable for the general public, it will be of interest to those working within the laser community, and to anyone with an interest in the history of science.
Spectral Computations for Bounded Operators

Spectral Computations for Bounded Operators

Mario Ahues; Alain Largillier; Balmohan Limaye

CRC Press
2019
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Exact eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and principal vectors of operators with infinite dimensional ranges can rarely be found. Therefore, one must approximate such operators by finite rank operators, then solve the original eigenvalue problem approximately. Serving as both an outstanding text for graduate students and as a source of current results for research scientists, Spectral Computations for Bounded Operators addresses the issue of solving eigenvalue problems for operators on infinite dimensional spaces. From a review of classical spectral theory through concrete approximation techniques to finite dimensional situations that can be implemented on a computer, this volume illustrates the marriage of pure and applied mathematics. It contains a variety of recent developments, including a new type of approximation that encompasses a variety of approximation methods but is simple to verify in practice. It also suggests a new stopping criterion for the QR Method and outlines advances in both the iterative refinement and acceleration techniques for improving the accuracy of approximations. The authors illustrate all definitions and results with elementary examples and include numerous exercises. Spectral Computations for Bounded Operators thus serves as both an outstanding text for second-year graduate students and as a source of current results for research scientists.